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...audience roughly reflects the nation's ideological breakdown of conservatives, moderates and liberals, according to a 2002 survey by the Pew Research Center. But many conservatives believe that the network remains the voice of the liberal elite. "There is a strong market for liberal voices, and it's being satisfied by NPR to a great degree," conservative media critic Brent Bozell said on an NPR talk show. Bruce Drake, 54, vice president of NPR News, acknowledges that if the Fox network's conservative TV and radio star Bill O'Reilly were given a regular slot on NPR, "I might have...
Shafqat described the relationship between India and Pakistan as “almost at the level of diplomatic breakdown...
...communication breakdown may also have something to do with how patients and doctors define medical errors. After studying 52 patients and 46 physicians, Dr. Thomas Gallagher, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle and the lead author of last week's J.A.M.A. paper, concluded that patients define errors much more broadly than their doctors, including not just adverse medical outcomes but also substandard service and deficient interpersonal skills. Physicians, on the other hand, define errors quite narrowly, counting only clear deviations from accepted standards of care...
...workers had been in negotiations for over a year with the university, renewing their contract on a month-by-month basis, but Yale hasn’t changed its wage offer since last June. When the unions offered to enter binding arbitration in February, the school administration refused. This breakdown in bargaining, given the low wages and poor working conditions at the school, gave workers no option but to strike...
...president's view, however, finds little support among analysts of the region, diplomats engaged in peace efforts or even Israeli and Palestinian leaders. A number of contending explanations have been offered for the breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, but Saddam Hussein is not one of them. The Iraqi leader may be beloved on the Palestinian street for his defiance of the U.S., but he has never been a significant factor in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His only direct presence in Palestinian politics comes in the form of the Arab Liberation Front, a miniscule Ba'athist organization based...